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Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-28
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Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-28

That is notable literary partnership which has been formed between Julian flaw thorne and Inspector Thomas ByrLes, chief of the New York Detective bureau. Some "tall" stories will doubtless flow from it.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-28

The Secretary of State, MT. L. M. Hub l bard, deserves and will receive much praise
 l for having the Public Acts printed and dis tributed so soon after the ending of the ses- sion of the legislature. The lawyers and others interested used to get tired waiting for their appearance.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
PROGRESS.

The Chevalier Won Elewyck, Of Louvain,
has Just perfected, after thirty-eight years Of
labor, a machine for recording all music ex-
temporizcd upon tho piano. His invention Is
worked by means Of electricity, and he has
been assisted in the mechanical details by II.
Kermis, an engineer Of Brussela
According to Professor Bonafoux, a powder
composed Of equal parts Of colophony, carbon
and gum arabic, is capable Of SO arresting
the bleeding Of large arteries as to prove de-
cidedly serviceable in important surgical OPP
e~rations. In the prevention Of consecutive
hemorrhage it also proves entirely s~atisfac-
tory. The application can be lifted in the
course of two or three days.
A man in Skowhegan, Me-, has invented a
new electric light, which has been patented
In America, England, Germany, France and
Russia, and promises to exceed anything else
of its kind. The light is produced by a
spiral carbon aud has what is called a mo
chanical feed, and is claimed by the inventor
to be not only brighter than any other light
now used, but also that there is no quivering.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
GRANT AND MCCLELLAN.

A Confederate soldier writes to the
New York san concerning its comments
on Mcclellan and Secretary Stanton.
The Sun thinks that Mcclellan could
have marched down by the route taken
by Grant, and that he was wrong in GO
ing two hundred and fifty miles by water
to find an enemy that was ten miles OIL,
and very easy to find. This is hardly mil
itary view CT the question.
Mcclellan came nearer to Richmond
with the loss of a few men than Grant
did with the loss of 10000. And If
Grants object was Petersburg, which he
took at the end Of ten months, the ques-
ton Is why he did not go on that line at
first. The only answer seems to be his
own problem of elimination" that Is, to
accomplish a result by superior numbers
and resources.
If anybody can call Grants bloody
repulses from the Wilderness to Cold
Harbor victories, why, of course, the
theory Of the san is correct, and
the comparison of McClellan's two
months with Grants ten is the basis Of a
critical conclusion that Grants movement
was the best.
Some able critics pirate of destroying
Lees army 10 glibly that it betokens
ignorance of the quality Of that army and
its commander, and of the failure of every
n to destroy it but starvation.
The failures to take Petersburg with a
greatly superior force when General
Lees attenuated army was extended over
a line of twenty-five miles, and the man
ner of the defense, show the same skill
that broke the Lacquer of Richmond in
1862.
The series Of combats fought on the
right of the Confederate position re-
suited in preventing Grant from turning
the position at Petersburg until, in April,
1865, he brought an absolutely over
whelming force against the detached
command at Five Forks.
The San will not be suspected of pre-
JUDGE, but the gist of the whole thing is
that General Grant had vastly superior
numbers, and his adversary no means Of
supplies or achievements when the end
came. Until that was the condition of
the army OF Northern Virginia, it could
not have been destroyed by any army
that the Union brought against either
Lee or the army in the West.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
The VnIue Of tho Interview.

The interview has a serious use. In "a
age in which lifo Is constantly likcned to 9
battle, SO lcrco Is tho competition for place
and 80 hot tho race for money, what do the
captains OF tho conflict have to tell the
world Of their triumphs or defeats-often
matters Of import to thousands Of people,
and of interest to the whole nationi Tho
men who act arc to-day, moro than over
before, not tho men who write. Tho man
who yields millions Of dollars, upon whose
policy and practice may depend tho price
Of bread for months to come, has often nc
other conception Of literary composition
than Q photographic dispatch, and in cipher
at that. Tho interviewer may, perhaps,
get from such q man information OF value
TO whole communities. Phillip g. Hubert, Jr.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

The New York Star quotes the New
York Times in an a~llusion to Secretary
Manning as the member of the Cabinet
who has shown distinct superiority both
as a statesman and apolitical leader" and
says that "in him the two characters may
be said to exist apart from each other.
The politician has had eminent success,
but he cannot bring his party anywhere
near to unanimity in supporting the pol
icy the statesman has evolved. The Sec
rotary of the Treasury has sound views
On fiscal legislation, and a bold and origi-
nal policy as to the currency; but his
party will not even consider either the
one or the other"
"That opinion Of Mr.. Manning" says
the Star, "is quite correct, but we would
say that it is as an administrator and a
practical executive officer that he has dis
played the highest qualities"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
Victims Of t.maIlpox.

1t may be rememper hat shortly after
Fort Sumter was ~irepon. the English
wrote over to tho Confe,tes, stating that
a new breech loading non had lately
been invented in Eng which would
doubtless be Of great ser to the south in
picking of northern lead. England was
asked to send over all thels of this make
that had been manu1actulh Ind with them
the inventors. As It naled, only four
such cannon had been q These were
shipped to America, and ~Confed.rates
were seeking to make iIlvemcnts on
them with q view to rendt them more
effective, when q troops l. upon them
in the neighborhood of na\Ga. What
was to be done' 1t would ! do TO have
these cannon fall into north hands, as in
that case the tables would b1ersed and
the Confederates would SUITE ttill. there
were no means of getting the law.
But q bright thought car Hrbe Con-
federato troops dug four gra hi buried
the cannon. Over each gravt adboard
was erected, hearing a fctitic tne. and
labeled ''died Of smallpox" ~ no n
would think Of exhuning the BIZ q man
who had died Of smallpox. aTl\nfcder-
ates withdrew, with tbs assr;ransk Eafety.
But the northern soldiers wcreN 10 be
duped. They dug up the suppose ies to
see what they were like, when ND be-
hold out camo the four cannon. newer
they were not used as the Coil ates
feared, but were simply kept Z Mics.
The regiment which captured thebpon
was composed Of soldiers from iii In
diana and Ohio, so after tho wary Of
these states received one Of tho "viV of
smallpox" and Washington got tho Nh.
Chicago Tines
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
We put,ish a letter in another column

We puUlish q letter in another column
from a w%ell-informed Democrat in the
country, who t~estifes to the fact that we
have been citing all the time, viz: that
the people will not pay q dollar when it
is fair to pay sixty cents.
And after all this is the point Of the
debt question. Read the letter and see
how plain the statement is, and how alb
surd it is to attempt to abuse and dragon
citizens into a machine-made policy that
has no foundation, but the ideas of a few
o~ficeholders and the Misrepresentation
of a few newspapers.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
Words from Governor Foraker.

As many hard things have been said in
the South about Governor Foraker OF
Ohio, the following extract from his
annual message to the Ohio Legislature is
published with great pleasure:
Regarding the condition of the Con-
federate Cemetery near old Camp Chase,
the Governor urges prompt action, say,
ing The title to it is in the United
States, and that Government should care
for these graves, but it seems to have
overlooked them. 1t is recommended
that unless the United States Government
can be induced to do SO, an a%ppropria-
ton be made to rebuild the tencea and
clean up the grounds. The same should
be done for the last resting place OF about
two hundred Confederate dead who are
buried on Johnson's Island"
This is a suggestion that does credit to
the Governors head and heart, and he
deserves the thanks OF the Southern peo-
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

When we read that out Of a lump of
Pittsburg coal such widely diverse sub
stances can be extracted as gas, ammonia,
water, tar, pitch, creOsote, naphtha, ben
zine, aniline, and t~oluenc, the latter yield
ing a saccharine matter beside whose
sweetness sugar is tasteless, a vivid idea
Is obtained Of the concentration or
natural wealth in this vicinity.-Phts5urg
Commercial Gazette.
That's all very well; but we let you
know, able Pittsburgers, that Virginia
has coal and iron so near together that
the price of transportation in Pennsyl-
vania is discounted one hundred per
cent; and the Keystone State has long
since begun to send its capital down here
to take advantage of the situation (the
alleged juxtapOsition, as it were); but as
for the sugar, let us have some Pittsburg
girls, and the Mother of Presidents and
Statesmen will show that she is up to her
ancient renown.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
sromls o ANIMALS

J. B. Bacon, Il Ballosk, Ca, cstrsyed Q
'xas pony Q few months ago, and this s
. way 1t came eut: Mr.. Bacon's bill, 81;
er1irs bills, $13: printers bills, SC: total,
D; pony brought SIS; loss, ST.. Tho pony
81 three days after lac was sold.
A citizen OF Norwich. Conn.,, has a most re-
cat. When he goes out with his
m the cat follows him like n setter dog. She
an observing creature, and when she dis
vered that every timo her owner went out
tn q gun sho was Toasted with n sparrow,
, took to following him. She keeps behind
n, ana when he shoots stops at his heels.
zen the bird falls she runs and retrieves like
be.
man in Keyport, N. j., built a fire in the
len range and was preparing TO leave tho
when ho heard strange noises from
WI tho stove. At first he was startled
anen began q Il investigation. He had no
70 removed tho covers than a large owl
jul out Of the range and began dying
bli about The room. The bird was caught,
butt in q short time. In tho night il hal
conwn through q long tile chimney into
the e.
A pull dog was recently cast to play q
mostlired part in q sensational drama at
O Cinati theatre. At q critical point in
tho peyery night. he bounded out and
seized villain by tho throat, holding on
in truel dog fashion, amid great applause.
The otlight the dog grabbed tho man as
usual, Tho incentive for his cxertion, a
big piec liver concealed around tho mans
neck, gaFay, and his dOgship stood there
before tootlishts and devoured it. tIo
was not ssd.
Mr.C. ser Of Waterbury. Connecticut,
IS anxion find a cat who has a record
which whit that of his do: Leo. Some
years aco ks run over 10y a freight train,
his tail cut and his eyes nearly forced out
Of their sec. .Aftcr this his owner lost
him Oh q traear Hartford, and two years
afterward 10 him on the streets by q mere
accident. 81 thcn, onco while living at
New Britain, Hauser awoko to find his
pct vita a laiullet hole in his head and
the animal nea'rozen to death, a condition
from whick ho vered only to DO poisoned
last fail and ma cripple for life.
A truthful cit of Romnsy, Maine, says
, hat the other he saw q dog trying to
bury live rabbhick ho Lad caught. He
held the rabbit in mouth while he dug its
grave with his p When the grave was
prepared, no put Unwilling occupant into
it, covered it up CT, lily, and, after patting
: the dirt well with avs, retired to a little
distance and lay do'retching It. Presently
bunny, doubles ting judgment day had
arrived, arose from tomb and started on
on . run. The doson caught him and
/; buried him again. 'es times tho little
animal resurrected J, and each time the
dog caught and burr, but on tho fourth
I trja, killed it before ceeding with tha
. ~L~xOrtA VIZ"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

Captain Mike Cregan, of New York,
bright light of the Republican party, on
the stand before investigating committee
"What payments did you make on cleo
tion-day?" was the question put to Capt.
Nike by the chairman of the committee.
The witness smiled an amused smile
and placed the index finger of his left
hand on the side of his nose. 81 am a
practical politician, | am" was his reply.
1T would be a new thing for me to tell
you that, and might land me in State
prison"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
An army board has been appointed tc

An army board has been appointed to
condense the army regulations. General
Logan was the chief manager of military
business in the Senate, and Senator Don
Cameron is the next in order for chair
man of the committee, but he is now
chairman of the Naval Committee, and
may prefer to hold that pluce which be-
comes an extremely important one in
view of the proposed reorganization of
the navy.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
Communicated
Coupons in the Country.
NoTTowAY COURTHOUSE, VA,
December 81. 1886.

December 81, 1886.
Editor Times:
Dear Sir,-I have been a Democrat all
my life-never voted with any other
party but now that | have rendered cou-
pons for my State taxes, | would like to
know if | can still vote the Democratic
ticket. | have been reading the Wing and
Dispatch, and from their general tenor it
seems that they don't want anybody in
the Democratic party that has ever seen
a coupon. | think If they continue to
abuse those who use coupons to
pay their taxes, the Republican par
tv will gain a great many votes.
The people in the country are poorer
than they have been since the war,
on account of the low prices for
tobacco, their only money crop; and they
are going to use coupons to pay their
taxes, or do anything else that is honest and
honorable to save q dollar. The Wig
and Dispatch seem to think that very few
coupons will he used to pay taxes, as so
few have been rendered to the 1st OF De-
cember. In the country very few people
pay their taxes by the 1st OF December,
and those that do are generally men OF
means, and don't care to trouble them
selves to get the coupons to save a few
dollars; but the poorer classes scarcely
ever pay their taxes before the LIST OF
July; and, as / have before said, they
will use coupons, or do anything else
that is honest and honorable to save a
dollar.
Hoping your endeavors to have the
debt settled honorably may be successful.
| am yours truly, X. Y. q.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
The Calendar superstition.

A Har yard professor has discovered that
the womenfolk place a superstitious value
upon the authors calendars now so popular.
They attach the same portent to the words
Of tho daily quotation that used to be held
for the ''guiding verse" foand by opening
Of the Bible at random Many al educated,
intelligent woman, he says, governs her
movemeL for the day by this literary hit
and miss. Tho Current.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

When Poole was released from Sing
Sing the other day he said: Warden, |
thank you for your kindness. l have
opened CLAIMS for this prison and done my
work faithfully. hope you will get as
good a man to superintend the clam de-
partment. I'm going back to the business
and | hope to have the pleasure of serving
this prison with clans.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

He built himself a palace, anz he mad
throne, 4
An there In grand supremacy he rule lln y
alone. =
Within his marble mansion like a wint~r d =
mouse hid,
The worlds Affairs he managed well, or fonci
that he did. I
He quilt n fence about his realm, white ashe
it all around,
And with a roof Of shining glass he covered q
the ground.
But when at last he raised a flag, and frf
gress," there was read.
The passers by exclaimed, "Hullo! the MUG
wump crank is dead"
-rAflapta Constitution.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
History from tho Private So1dic

Frank Wilkeson served as an art
private during the last year of the war;
no is imbued with an impassioned COZ
ton that-excepting for Grants
NOTES.-The "epauletted history" Wi
by officers is inspired by vanity or jealo'
and full Of un~fairness. 1t is his belief
the private soldiers "who won the battl
when they were given a chance to y
them, and lost them through the ignoran
and incapacity of commanders" kno
more about the real nature of the war al
the truth Of operations in the fold than al
one else. He thinks it is their duty
write all that they know about it, and
write as they talked at tho camp fire az
during the march. If this idea DO General
acted upon by Grand Army veterans '
shall have the grandest and most wonderf
history ever written.-Now York Star.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

We want to hear from our sister city,
the Brooklyn of Richmond, what it thinks
about annexation, for some wicked ribald
from over the river informs the TIMES
that they are too Conservative and
Democratic, and generally entirely too
good to annex Richmond. We remember
that Manchester sets a solid Democratic
example, and holds it up all the time.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
We intend to explain until it is clearl,

We intend to explain until it is clearly
understood a very simple principle, name
", that free government in our country
should act on the principles that the peo-
pie act on who themselves are the sover-
eighty. Officials are the trustees and
servants" of the people, and in their rep
resentative capacity cannot act by differ
ent rules than those governing the indi-
viduals. If a State government sets up
an idea of financial obligations that indi-
viduals do not acknowledge then we have
a personal government like a kingdom
and not a representative government.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

A New York paper says editorially
that General Di Cesnola is mad.
Well, let him stay so until he gets
pleased again.
Who the deuce is General Di Ces, any
way?
Let him put his wrath on ice when he
is ready, and see whether anybody cares
If it is on toast or in a refrigerator.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

Miss Cleveland sets forth in Der poem
the doctrine that people partake Of the
nature of the food they eat, and that to
illustrate it the cannibal must be vile, but
the conclusion is not according to the ar
gument but to the facts.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

The real estate transfers of New York
city for 1886 foot up over two hundred
millions.
In 1776 that city had about 1900 in
habitants, and sometime before that Dunn
fries, Virginia, was her rival as Western
mart.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

LADY, can give you a little more of that
clam chowder il you var it
T~ramp-Thank you, I've hail all l want,
m besides you'll need what's lett 10 wash the
dishes with.-Lifa
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

President Young, of the National
League, says that Legitimate baseball has
at no time been so successful as now, and
that though some grave mistakes nave
been made in the past year the great ma
tional game will continue to grow in
popularity.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
The Pundit is sad and serius,

The Pundit IS sad and serlus,
The Moonshee is learned and wise,
When they gaily perform on Cluverius,
And wildly mould mud into pies.
The TIMES doesn't catch on TO hog-wash,
Like the humbug it don't play the game,
But the newsboy, he calls for a penny,
And the TIMES gets there all the same.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
T

A new patented life-buoy is equipped
with rockets to fire as signals of distress.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04

The annual ball of the German Club
was given at the Exchange Hotel last
night.
A number OF brilliant ladies were pres
emf. some of whom are visitors to the
citu
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-08
alssgsa4ptIzia Gazetts,

The GAZETTE is now the oldest paper II,
the State, and with few exceptions tho old
est in tine county, and its usefulness has
been demonstrated aud appreciated daring
the EIGHTY SEVEN YEARS offs existence Ia
its columns has always been found a mirror
of passing events, and the careful chront.
cling OF the history of what is going on in tho
world has ever been IFS aim. 1t is AWAY.
welcomed ia the household, while in the
counting room and workshop it has become
Invaluable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-08
8 leza1lria Gazette.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE S.

ExpLosroN-As stated in yesterdays
GAZETTE, the boiler OF locomotive attached
to southbound freight train on the Phlla'
delphia and Baltimore railroad baltimore
and Ohio exploded in front of the passenger
station in Chester, Pa, at s o'clock yester-
day morning, killing one man and seriously
jniurinc several others, one of them fatally.
The air was filled with flying pieces of iron
and timber and scalding water. A number
of persons were standing on the station
platform, and several of them were badly
scalded or cut with flying missiles. One
man, carpenter, employed on the road,
residing in Baltimore, whose name no one
knew, was instantly killed. John Murphy,
aged q years, telegraph operator, OF
Chester, was SO badly scalded ana injured
that his death is momentarily expected. A
woman, whose name could not be learned,
was struck in the side by piece OF iron
and is dangerously injured. Four other
persons wereDjured. Il. l.. Blakely,. the
fireman, who was standing on the sandoox
of the locomotive, was hurled many feet in
the air, and was severely Injured by the fall
Emmitt Dixon, of Wheeling, w. Va, the
engineer, sat in his cab and was not Injured.
The handsome little station building was
almost completely wrecked and row OF
five dwellings on the opposite side OF the
street were considerably damaged. A piece
of the bell was blown through the roof OF 8
house q square away and portions OF the
engine were found three squares away. Inc
wreck was soon cleared from the tracks,
and travel was resumed in few hours.